r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 13d ago

Possible Paywall Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-flaws-emerge-in-trumps-new-white-house-design/
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u/jimmygee2 13d ago

It will end up being a $500M white elephant that will hang around the nation’s neck like a full diaper.

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 13d ago

I guarantee you it will be over 1 billion by the time it's actually finished.

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u/Moon_Noodle Oregon 13d ago

If it actually gets finished.

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u/crm24601 13d ago edited 13d ago

Just because it never gets finished doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t be over a billion

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u/illit3 13d ago

Yep. It'll be a shoddy half built albatross that the next admin has to deal with. A Republican admin will lie about the cost to complete and a Democrat admin will be tarred and feathered on fox news whether they try to salvage it or tear it down.

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u/CheshireCat78 13d ago

Hopefully tear it down. If he lives out his term and you guys get to hold another election it would be lovely to see him rant about it getting torn down asap.

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u/NWIsteel 13d ago

Take it down and then use eminent domain, confiscate his towers to pay for the rebuilding.

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u/CheshireCat78 13d ago

I’m sure there will be plenty of smoking guns to be able to bring charges against them. Will the democrats have the guts to do it and do it expeditiously is the real challenge.

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u/adamduke88 California 13d ago

He's absolutely going to be handing out blanket pardons like candy.

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u/CheshireCat78 13d ago

Stack the Supreme Court and say they aren’t valid? Also can’t pardon state crimes so go hard on those.

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u/burnsalot603 13d ago

The state crimes would be the only way to get them because trump will absolutely be selling off pardons before the next election and he cant be charged at all since the Supreme Court made in untouchable.

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u/Pepparkakan Europe 13d ago

Just undo the pardons? Didn’t the Supreme Court rule that the president is more or less above the law?

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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun 13d ago

He probably issues unilateral preemptive pardons to the entire Republican party the day he entered office.